The long evenings are getting shorter. The diary starts filling up, and conversations begin to shift from holidays to routines.

Instead of feeling refreshed, you feel overwhelmed. Your inbox is overflowing, your routine disappeared - and somehow you feel more exhausted than before you left.

Overthinking isn’t just a thought pattern - it’s often a nervous system pattern. When your brain has learned that uncertainty doesn’t feel safe, it tries to reduce that discomfort by thinking its way out of it.

For many people, therapy doesn’t feel like something you “choose” immediately. It becomes the thing you consider after you’ve already tried everything else.

Nothing bad is happening... so why does it feel like something bad is about to happen?

I've got a good job. My friends think I'm doing well... so why do I feel so empty?

They are still attending meetings. Still replying to emails. Still showing up. But something has shifted.

A lot of people come to counselling unsure whether what they’re feeling is “serious enough.” But you do not need to be in crisis to talk to someone.

The problem with chronic stress is that your sympathetic nervous system gets stuck in the "on" position.

Almost 1 in 3 people in England and Wales have felt the effects of escalating mortgage costs over the past year.

According to the Office for National Statistics, almost 1 in 3 adults aged 20 - 34 now live at home with their parents.